Alleged $6bn theft: Count us out – NNPC

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Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation yesterday said it had no records that the sum of $6 billion was stolen from oil proceeds under the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
This follows an allegation by Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, that an unnamed former minister stole the sum of $6 billion during Jonathan’s tenure.

Oshiomhole said this revelation was given by a United States official during President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent state visit to the country.
  However, Group Public Affairs Manager, NNPC, Mr Ohi Alegbe, told Sunday Telegraph on the telephone that it was wrong to assume that the alleged $6bn was stolen from the oil sector.
He also said NNPC had declined to respond to attacks from Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and Oshiomhole. “Have they confirmed that the missing money is from the oil sector? Who said so? What you read from the papers was not from the oil sector.
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